Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200
Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550
Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration. -
Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000
Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand. -
Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble. -
Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base. -
'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700
Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.
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Post Medieval Dutch Glazed Ceramic Tile Group
Circa 17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Comprising glazes of various colours and displaying wildlife, landscape scenes, geometric designs, figural scenes, plants and vegetal motifs. 4.4 kg total, 13 x 13 cm each
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection. -
Post Medieval Bronze Hunting Badge with Boar's Head
17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Of slightly curved profile, heater-shaped with waisting and scrolled upper edge; low-relief boar's head motif; holes to upper corners and three fixing studs to the reverse. 22 grams, 70 mm high
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968. -
Chinese Hardstone Plaque Pendant
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
With high-relief scene, pixiu and coiled foliage. 46 grams, 56 x 43 mm
Ex Paris gallery, 1980-1990. From a Parisian collection. -
Neoclassical Glass Oval with Jugate Busts in Gold Pendant
Circa 1800 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
The oval with pounced surface, slightly domed panel with profile male and female busts; set in a gold frame with suspension loop. 36.8 grams, 61 mm
Private collection, England. -
Jadeite Pendant Necklace with 'Rubies' and Other Cabochons
Late 19th-early 20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Plaque with floral design comprising inset glass cabochons, synthetic rubies and gold-coloured wire detailing. 70 grams, pendant height: 76 mm
Property of a South West London gentleman. -
Carnelian Bead Necklace
19th century A.D. or earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £104
Composed of graduated polished carnelian beads of mainly biconical and annular form; hook-and-eye clasp. 36.2 grams, 53 cm long
Private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s. The property of Mr and Mrs P.R. of East Sussex. Thence by descent to family members. -
Framed Watercolour Painting
India, 19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
A textual panel with a figural scene in watercolour at the centre, polychrome floral border; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 1.14 kg, 42.2 x 30.2 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art. -
Roman Style Terracotta Oil Lamp Collection
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising: broad discus and volute scrolls to the nozzle, high-relief profile image of Orpheus with a lyre; similar with two putti embracing; sturdy drum-shaped body and loop handle to the rear, stub nozzle and bull's head motif; slipper-shaped with thick lug handle, ropework shoulders; similar with vine leaves and grapes to the shoulder, loop handle, anchor motif and 'ANNO SANTO' legend; after the antique. 638 grams total, 10.2-13.7 cm
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Post Medieval Glazed Animal Tile Group
17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Group of four green-glazed tiles, each square in plan with raised edges and zoomorphic motif in high relief. 548 grams total, 10.2 x 9.8 - 10.2 x 9.9 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. Ex East Anglian private collection.
Tile production increased in the second half of the 16th century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area. -
Bronze Head of Dionysus and Ariadne
20th century A.D. or earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £111
Hollow-formed janiform bust with wreath to the brows. 634 grams, 16 cm high
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Cased Georgian and Later Clay Pipe Collection
1840-1910 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Collection of mainly white-clay moulded smoking pipes; many with a caricature head forming the bowl, such as a bearded man or a lady wearing a bonnet; also a child's toy pipe and cigarette holders; mounted in a felt-lined glazed wooden display case; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 4.85 kg total, 65 x 36.5 cm
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968. -
Langobardic Style Gold Ring with Garnets
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,820
With broad discoid bezel in 6th-7th century A.D. style surrounded by an applied beaded wire rim; granule and filigree ornament to the shank, triangular garnet cloison in a cell to each shoulder, three radiating triangular garnet cloisons to the bezel with applied wire collars, central garnet cloison, scrolled wire appliqués. 8.88 grams, 23.48 mm overall, 19.53 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T, USA 9 1/2, Europe 21.26, Japan 20)
From a private collection, The Netherlands. Acquired in 2010. Property of a North American gallery.